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Independent: TWO Christian groups are considering a private prosecution after Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to charge two doctors who agreed to arrange abortions of baby girls purely because of their gender.

LifeSiteNews: The Parti Quebecois’ charter of values legislation, which proposes "to entrench the religious neutrality of the state and the secular nature of public institutions" in Quebec’s Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, is being condemned by all sides of the political spectrum, and by religious leaders across the country.

Forum18: In two separate cases in August known to Forum 18, administrative fines on 20 religious believers in Samarkand [Samarqand] and Kashkadarya for "illegal religious literature" totalled the equivalent of nearly 68 years’ official minimum wage.

CNSNews: The wielding of “religious defamation” lawsuits have surged in Egypt in the two-and-a-half years since the Mubarak regime was ousted, an Egyptian human rights group has found. Christians have been disproportionately targeted.

WorldNetDaily: However, in a classified document just obtained by WND, the U.S. military confirms that sarin was confiscated earlier this year from members of the Jabhat al-Nusra Front, the most influential of the rebel Islamists fighting in Syria.

LifeSiteNews: The Ontario Human Rights Tribunal has ruled that the District School Board of Niagara cannot hand out Bibles unless the school board revises its policies to facilitate the distribution of atheistic texts.

LifeSiteNews: "I think it is a violation of the right to have a religion, and to be religious. Because it is not only about private religion, private life. It’s also about public life," said Archbishop Christian Lépine,according to CBC News.

Christian Institute: The UK Government’s plan to allow the genetic modification of babies has been criticised in an article published by a leading international science journal. Nature, a prominent science periodical, published an article saying the proposals crossed “a legal and ethical line” and were “premature and ill-conceived”.

Christian Concern: This week, the pan-European ‘One of Us’ initiative secured its one millionth signature, with the prospect of a total ban on controversial EU funding for Human Embryo research moving a step closer as a result.

LifeNews: ChinaAid learned on Aug. 26, 2013 that Chinese Christian Wang Xuebai had been out of contact for several days. It is believed that Wang was detained in connection with her appeals to the government on behalf of her husband.